The flag is offensive and racist and needs to be removed IMMEDIATELY.

Formerly Homeland Security deportation form allowed for two choices: "Deport immediately" and "Bring to a deportation hearing immediately." At the behest of foreign vessels, Sen Inouye got them to add a third choice of "Detain on board". This was meant to be a few days while the ship was briefly docked in Hawai'i. What it has turned into is months and years of imprisonment for foreign fishermen and human trafficking. AG Chin is supporting the practice of illegally issuing these deportees fishing licenses which underpins this entire human trafficking operation.

Disarm Trump's Twitter Account Take Trump Off Twitter (TTT) We, the undersigned, respectfully request that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey end Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Donald Trump’s "tweets" purvey purposely-false information, attack other public servants unfairly, inflame international diplomatic tensions, and threaten the reputation of the United States of America as a world leader of peace and democratic ideals. Perhaps most disturbing, Trump’s tweets deliver inconsistent and contradictory messages to the American People about their country’s policies and stability. Secretary of State Tillerson called Trump a "f****** moron" after Trump ridiculed the Secretary in a tweet for seeking a negotiated solution with North Korea, a nuclear power. The Washington Post reported that one of Trump's closest friends, Tom Barrack, was "shocked" and "stunned" by Trump's rhetoric and tweets. Our Constitution protects free speech. However, Twitter is a web-based technology platform that reserves full discretion to limit access to specific customers for abusing their service. We think Donald Trump has abused the privilege of this service, and continues to harm America and the American people with his continued access to Twitter. We request Mr. Dorsey immediately discontinue Trump’s access to Twitter.

The present Veterans attending VA hospitals and clinics have fought in WWII, South Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan and numerous skirmishes around the world. There is a certain fellowship that overcomes you when you enter the facility that tells you not alone in your health care fight. Please don't let them do away with our health care providers.

The United Nations regularly holds a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in which it reviews the human rights record of nations across the world. While the UPR has expanded to include violence based on nationality, gender identity, and sexual orientation, animals continue to be completely ignored. This neglect occurs despite the trillions of individual animals - including entire species - who are being exterminated across the globe. The Compassionate City Campaign lays out a bold vision for cities within the UN to enshrine the right of all sentient beings to live free from violence. We are calling on the UN Human Rights Council to include animal rights -- and the goal of gradually creating a truly compassionate vegan city -- in its covenant on civil and political rights at its next UPR. By setting out this vision today, the United Nations will lay the groundwork for achieving an end to institutionalized animal exploitation worldwide in one generation.

After the Russian interference in the 2016 election and the millions of ads served to voters purchased by Russian accounts, our political ad disclosure laws need updating. The bipartisan HONEST Ads Act will modernize disclosure laws for online political ads and help bolster the integrity of our elections. All Americans, regardless of their political party, have a right to know who is trying to influence our votes and opinions. As political ad spending continues to shift to online platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, our laws should keep pace. Whether it be a big money Super PAC or a Russian oligarch, the American people should know who is paying for those ads. Modernizing our election laws around online political ads our transparency and election laws is commonsense and needed, especially after the Russian interference in the 2016 election. Every member of Congress should support this bipartisan and important bill.

Hundreds of public sector jobs will be lost along with essential services to additional thousands of vulnerable mentally ill and elderly citizens. Privatization is nothing more than profiteering. Please join UE Local 170, West Virginia Public Workers Union’s counter-attack. Furthermore, call your Delegate (s) or Senators (s) and tell them you strongly oppose the privatization of all state hospitals. Demand Cabinet Secretary Bill Crouch’s resignation. Demand that DHHR stop spending $ 18 Million dollars a year on out of state contract employees and expedite the hiring process for full-time state employees.

Finally, there is a potential solution to this mess -- now is the time to make our voices heard. Congress needs to know that the American people want the ACA fixed and there will be political consequences if they don't support this legislation.

"Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel, Author, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust Survivor After the Holocaust, the world said "Never Again." Yet today, global displacement as a result of conflict and atrocities has hit a record high. Conflicts in Burma, Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Central African Republic, Sudan, South Sudan, and elsewhere rage on despite billions spent on humanitarian relief, damage to regional economies, and enormous refugee crises. As a recent report by the humanitarian NGO Mercy Corps stated, "Just ten years ago, about 80 percent of humanitarian aid went to helping the victims of natural disasters. Yet today, 80 percent of aid is going to people whose lives have been turned upside down by conflict. The change has been so dramatic that the World Bank now recognizes conflict as the primary cause of poverty and human suffering -- not just one among various causes." As one of the most influential world powers, the United States has a moral and pragmatic responsibility to invest in and support genocide prevention efforts. Passing the Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act (GAPA) would be an immense step in the right direction, improving U.S. government coordination on atrocity prevention, providing flexible funding to respond to unforeseen crises, and requiring Foreign Service Officers to undergo atrocity prevention training. These policies would massively improve our ability to respond to and mitigate emerging atrocities. As we reflect on the lives lost to genocide and mass atrocities throughout history, we commit ourselves to fighting for a world without genocide and mass atrocities. We urge Congress to support GAPA, and invite you to #PledgeGAPAGAPA with us. The U.S. has long been a leader in the fight to end genocide; we must continue to lead on this vital bipartisan issue before more innocent lives are needlessly cut short.

Congress let funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) lapse on September 30, endangering continued health care coverage for nearly 9 million American children, including 22,310 Maine children. Sixty Maine legislators signed a letter to Maine's Congressional delegation in response. State Senator Rebecca Millett asks Mainers to join them in urging quick action by Congress to reauthorize CHIP.

Sign the pledge to take personal action to confront sexual harassment and assault in your daily life — when you sign, add a comment with at least one proactive behavior you will change, add, or adopt. Then share with and tag other people you want to invite to join you in being part of the solution, including men! 

 #MeToo has sparked an outpouring of personal stories of sexual harassment and assault.  

But in order to change the status quo, where an estimated 1-in-3 women in the US are sexually assaulted, we need those who are most commonly doing the harassment or assault — and most often upholding that behavior by not actively opposing it — to speak out, and change their actions. 

In other words, men need to be part of this conversation. We are most frequently and most egregiously guilty of sexual assault or harassment — and those who indirectly benefit from the oppression of women. 

 Take the pledge to act, and share with everyone who you want to invite to join you in taking on sexual harassment and assault — particularly the men in your lives. 

 While sexual assault can happen to anyone—including men—there is also a pattern of intersecting oppression that makes some of us more vulnerable than others, especially transgender people and those who identify as neither women nor men. And the locus of the conversation needs to shift to people who are less likely to experience it, and what we're going to do—those of us who are men have a responsibility to choose to take action, so that it's not only on those who have experienced harassment or assault to also confront it. For a list of things men can do to take action, check out this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/16/a-simple-list-of-things-men-can-do-to-change-our-work-and-life-culture

Trump has a long and disgraceful history of disrespecting veterans and military families, but his callous treatment of Myeshia Johnson - whose husband was killed in Niger earlier this month - proves once and for all that he is unfit to be Commander in Chief. When Trump called Ms. Johnson, not only did he tell the grieving widow that her husband, Sgt. La David T. Johnson "knew what he signed up for," he even struggled to remember the fallen soldier's name! As an Afghanistan veteran, I want to know when Congress will finally stand up for our military community. Trump must be held accountable for his attacks on troops, veterans and their families. Tell Congress to censure Trump now.